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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

MARGERY VENABLES (MAINWARING) 1369-1459

[Ancestral Link: Lura Minnie Parker (Stagge), daughter of
Minnie May Elmer (Parker), daughter of Mark Alfred Elmer, son of Hannah Polina
Child (Elmer), daughter of Alfred Bosworth Child, son of Hannah Benedict
(Child), daughter of Hannah Carter (Benedict), daughter of John Carter, son of
Hannah St. John (Carter), daughter of Matthias St. John, son of Matthias St.
John, son of Matthias Sention, son of Sarah Bulkeley (Sention), daughter of
Edward Bulkeley, son of Elizabeth Grosvenor (Bulkeley), daughter of Anne
Charlton (Grosvenor), daughter of Anne Mainwaring (Charlton), daughter of
William Mainwaring, son of Margery Venables (Mainwaring).]

[Ancestral
Link: Lura Minnie Parker (Stagge), daughter of Minnie May Elmer
(Parker), daughter of Mark Alfred Elmer, son of Hannah Polina Child (Elmer),
daughter of Alfred Bosworth Child, son of Hannah Benedict (Child), daughter of
John Benedict, son of Daniel Benedict, son of John Benedict, son of Anna St.
John (Benedict), daughter of Mark St. John, son of Matthias Sention, son of
Sarah Bulkeley (Sention), daughter of Edward Bulkeley, son of Elizabeth
Grosvenor (Bulkeley), daughter of Anne Charlton (Grosvenor), daughter of Anne
Mainwaring (Charlton), daughter of William Mainwaring, son of Margery Venables (Mainwaring).]ALSO FOUND ON MILLER-AANDERSON.BLOGSPOT.COMMargery Venables -
1369http://histfam.familysearch.org/getperson.php?personID=I41774&tree=Dodge

MiddlewichThere has been a church
on this site since the middle of the 12th century. The only evidence remaining
from this period are four pillars in the nave. The chancel and most of the nave
were rebuilt in the 14th century. The tower, the Lady Chapel at the East end of
the South aisle were added in the 15th century and the Kinderton
Chapel, also known as the Bostock Chapel, was built in
the 16th century. Gilbert de Venables was the first Baron
Kinderton, holding his land under Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester in the reign of
William I. The oldest monument in the church is a brass plaque dating from 1591
which commemorates Elizabeth Venables, the wife of the then Baron of Kinderton.
The chancel roof was provided by Sir William Brereton of nearby Brereton Hall in
1621. There are stained glass windows in the South Wall commemorating members of
the Vaudrey family.

The church was at the centre of a Civil War skirmish
in 1643. Colonel Sir Thomas Aston and Royalist forces took refuge in the church
tower but the town was later captured by Sir William Brereton of Handforth, the
Parliamentary commander. His relative, Sir William Brereton of Brereton was a
Royalist. The church was damaged by cannon fire. At the time of the action, Sir
Edward Mosley was captured. He had estates at Rolleston in Staffordshire and in
Manchester. He had been made a baronet in 1640. He was released on condition
that he took no further part in the war. His estates were sequestered and
recovered on payment of £4,874. In other payments and loans he provided the
Royalists with about £20,000. He died aged 41 in 1657 and is buried at Didsbury
in the Mosley Chapel.

In 1809 the roof of the nave of the church at
Middlewich was destroyed. It was replaced at the time but in the late 19th
century was replaced again with an oak roof. There was a major restoration in
the period 1857-8 during which alterations were made to the north aisle and
Kinderton Chapel. The whitewash covered plaster on the interior walls was
removed and the exterior walls were refaced.

In Lewins Street is the
Victoria Technical Schools and Free Library in red brick and terracotta. It was
provided for the town in 1897 by the Brunner family whose enterprise, Brunner
Mond, became one of the founding firms of ICI in 1929. It has a series of
tableaux showing the youth of Middlewich in 1897 studying arts, science and
technology overlooked by an owl representing wisdom. Sources:St. Michael
and All Angels Parish Church, Middlewich, A Brief History and Guide to the
Architecture. Pamphlet available in the church, anonymous, price 40 pence in
2001County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, by James Croston, M.A.,
published by John Heywood, Manchester and London, 1887.

SOME ADDED NOTES AND SOURCESGeorge Ormerod's The History of
County Palatine and City of Chester, Vol III, pg. 199. called the only daughter
of Hugh de Cotton, and sister of Hugh de Coton of Rudheth, and a widow by 11
Richard II (1398)

~Boyer's Ancestors of Robert Abell, pg. 255, calls her
Sir Hugh Venerable's second wife. The line continues with the children of
Margery de Cotton.

Marriage to Randle MainwaringRandle
Mainwaring, son of William and Elizabeth was born abt. 1367 in Over-Peover,
Cheshire, England. He married Margery Venables in 1391, the daughter of
Hugh and Margery Cotton. He succeeded to the family estates after the
death of his brother John, entered the service of King henry IV, and, as a
result of an attachment to the court of the Earl of Chester, was in 1405 granted
for life the office of Equitator of the Forest of Mara and Mondrem, which tne
included much of the Hundred of Nantwich and all of Edisbury. Then, when the
Earl succeeded as King Henry V, Randle was granted two parts of the serjeanty of
Macclesfield during the minority of John Davenport, whose family held the
hereditary serjeanty. Randle died in 1456.

Source: Medieval English
Ancestors of Robert Abell from ancestry.com

Brass Screen used by the Venables in St Michaels and
All the Angels Church, MiddlewichThis is a photo of the
screen that was used by the Veneables during services. One of the oldest
monuments in the church is a brass screen dated 1591 in memory of Elizabeth
Venables, wife of Baron Kinderton. A Jacobean screen with the carved arms of the
Venables family was originally at the entrance to the Kinderton chapel but is
now inside the tower.
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Michael_and_All_Angels,_Middlewich
from ancestry.com

St Michaels and All the Angels
Church

Poor Box in St Michaels and All the Angels
Church

Astbury Church

In the churchyard are 51 gravestones dating from the
17th century.[1] The most important monument is the canopied tomb of a member of
the Venables family which dates from the late 13th century and
which was formerly inside the church. It contains two figures, male and female,
with their hands clasped in prayer. On the canopy are crocketed pinnacles which
date from the 17th century. It is listed Grade II*[15] and is the only one of
its kind in Cheshire.[1] Four other structures around the church are listed as
Grade II. These are tombstones with weathered effigies to the north and to the
south of the Venables tomb,[16] [17] an 18th century octagonal pillar standing
on a two steps which were formerly the base of a cross dating from the 16th
century,[18] and the yellow sandstone gateway to the churchyard dating from the
17th century which consists of an arch with crocketed pinnacles.[19] A yew tree
in the churchyard is believed to be over 1,000 years old.[20] Saxon church was
on the site at the time of the Domesday Book and it was replaced by a Norman
church. It was originally the mother church of Congleton. The Norman church was
almost entirely replaced by a building in the Early English style and this was
in turn largely replaced in the 15th century.[2] It was restored in 1862 by Sir
George Gilbert Scott.[1] During the civil war while Biddulph Hall was under
siege, Sir William Brereton's Roundheads stabled their horses in the church.
They damaged the medieval glass windows and removed some of the church
furniture, including the organ
source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mary%27s_Church,_Astbury
found on ancestry.com